land—during this culturally delicate time. Kennedy speaks in a passionate tone for the socially divided citizens. Indeed‚ they differ between settling for peace or retaliating with anger. By acknowledging the immediate audience‚ Kennedy uses diverse figurative language and recognizes the issue of violence to grant his speech credibility. Kennedy incorporates imagery throughout
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Frankenstein‚ the monster wants someone to care about him and accept him in every way since he feels rejected towards the human. For instance‚ the monster tells Victor‚ “You must create a female for me whom I can live with in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being” (104). The monster appearance may be difficult to look at but he developes the same patterns as the human such as sense of smell‚ touch‚ sight‚ taste‚ and hearing. The monster looks just like the humans except he is a bit
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“Sonnet 83” by William Shakespeare conveys the indescribable beauty of a person using punctuation‚ imagery‚ and figurative language. The word “painting” as used in the first line of the poem is a type of poetic imagery that means praise or poetic flattery. This accompanied with “painting set” creates a much more elegant image than simply writing the word praising. Imagery and figurative language is more heavy and emphasized in the last two lines of the quatrains. The last line of stanza one for example
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written by Katie Alender has rich author’s craft. This book uses descriptive language‚ figurative language‚ and symbolism to express a person’s ability to see what others don’t and how it frightens her. In the book‚ Alender uses figurative language to show how frightened she becomes at those overwhelming moments. This connects to the idea that fear could lead to being overwhelmed or the other way around. Figurative language helps the reader visualize what’s going on in an over-exaggerated manner.
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In the stanza from the story of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth wants to lose her feminine qualities in order to be capable of murder. She conveys this through the use of figurative language and alliteration. Through the usage of figurative language‚ it is understood that she wants to lose her nurturing female qualities. Her statement of “unsex me here” figuratively means that she does not want to be the sex that she was given so that she could commit the murder. Literally she means that in order to pull
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Watsky’s song "tiny glowing screens Pt. 2" is a great example of poetry in music. Watsky uses multiple different types of figurative language including speeding up the rhythm when the song gets more passionate. This song also has a lot of meaning‚ Watsky is talking about the scope of our world and how we can make ourselves important. Watsky starts off the song with a statistic‚ "There’s 7 billion 46 million people on this planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter." There are so
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Lincoln expresses a desire to finally end the civil war in order to reunite the country. To accomplish this‚ he uses several unique stylistic elements in his address such as effective use of repetition‚ a religious tone‚ and comprehensible figurative language. Lincoln uses repetition in his inaugural address to notify his countrymen that the Civil War will end soon. He stresses the importance of unity in order to heal the wounds inflicted by the war. “With malice toward none; with charity toward
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Things Fall Apart‚ the emotional understanding of one man in the Igbo culture is put to the test. Okonkwo is a man of many words: strength‚ courage‚ power etc. He is known in his clan for being one of the strongest men‚ both physically and mentally. Sympathy is not something many describe Okonkwo as‚ but they are wrong. Okonkwo is a sympathetic character as it can be seen through other characters such as his second wife Ekwefi and her daughter Ezinma‚ but also a boy named Ikemefuna. Okonkwo has a
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I would like to preface this by saying I am in no way looking for your sympathy‚ I am writing this to educate you. To show you what it’s like because it’s not something that is talked about and it’s something close to my heart. I have been lucky in the fact that I have a few people in my life who have gone through similar situations to tell me what is normal and what is not. As a lot of you already know this time of year is difficult for me. What most of you won’t aleady know is that this year
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The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are
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